398 - Revolutionizing AI - Interview with Pindar Van Arman

Pindar Van Arman is an award-winning AI Artist who builds, codes and experiments with robots that paint in a variety of styles. Pindar was a winner of the Robot Art Competition for his home-made robots that use AI to paint artworks. He is best known for his robotic art project Cloud Painter, a sophisticated robot painter highlighted in videos below.

Van Arman’s exploration into robot art began by following his curiosity, attempting to answer the question: Where does creativity come from? To try to understand this universal question, he dissects his own artistic process and teaches robots to paint.

Van Arman’s impressive and award-winning works include CloudPainter, an autonomous robot that anyone with an Internet connection can control to produce artworks. He has been featured in many interviews, TV episodes, and conferences. 

In this Podcast, AI Artist Pindar Van Arman talks about his journey into AI art, the disruption of AI, singularity and the future of AI, the definition of “art” and where AI art and NFT’s fit into that, as well as answers the most urgent question of 2023: Will AI take our jobs?

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